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took to

What does "took to the field" mean in the following?

Let's start with expert intuition. Herbert Simon won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978 partially for his research on how experts think, and in the 1990s Gary Klein took to the field to study experts in action, such as firefighters, emergency room nurses, and soldiers in battle.